Ian Greenblatt

Ian Greenblatt, Managing Director, leads the Technology/Media/Telecom practice of J.D. Power. For the past four years, he has been responsible for the firm’s TMT customer satisfaction studies and the performance improvement services J.D. Power provides to the industry. Ian brought his decades of TMT experience to J.D. Power from his own boutique advisory practice where he delivered strategy and board of directors’ guidance to public companies, and enabled public, private and institutional investors to direct capital in the cable and broadcast space Previously, Greenblatt served as Vice President, Strategy & Business Development at ARRIS, then the world leader in set-top box and cable modem technology. In that role, he provided strategy and leadership to monetize the $500M+ multiscreen products portfolio and played an integral part in transactions to grow ARRIS’ solutions capabilities. Before ARRIS, Greenblatt was responsible for content strategy and business development at Motorola Mobility, a division of Google. Together with world-class researchers and technologists, he drove Motorola corporate development of next-generation video and associated services for set-tops and mobile devices by developing and acquiring technologies and providers to define future video experiences, along with leading teams to develop or acquire such technology. As an pioneer in the OTT (over-the-top) and television on-demand spaces his start-ups included Zattoo, the world’s first virtual cable operator with live broadcast television, and Broadbus, a pioneer of solid-state computer systems for delivering television on-demand. He holds a BSc from Northwestern University, a Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law, and has completed the USC Marshall School of Business Executive Leadership Program.